New York Town Law Article 16 - ZONING AND PLANNING

• 261 - Grant of Power; Appropriations for Certain Expenses Incurred Under This Article.
  For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the town board is hereby empowered by local law...
• 261-a - Transfer of Development Rights; Definitions; Conditions; Procedures.
  1. As used in this section: a. "Development rights" shall mean the rights permitted to a lot, parcel, or area of land under a zoning...
• 261-b - Incentive Zoning; Definitions, Purpose, Conditions, Procedures.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Incentives or bonuses" shall mean adjustments to the permissible population density, area, height, open space, use, or...
• 261-c - Planned Unit Development Zoning Districts.
  A town legislative body is hereby authorized to enact, as part of its zoning local law or ordinance, procedures and requirements for the establishment and...
• 262 - Districts.
  For any or all of said purposes the town board may divide that part of the town which is outside the limits of any incorporated...
• 262-a - Town of Lansing; Division of Certain Parts Thereof.
  For any and all of the purposes set forth in article sixteen of the town law, the town board of the town of Lansing may...
• 263 - Purposes in View.
  Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, flood,...
• 264 - Adoption of Zoning Regulations.
  1. Method of procedure. The town board shall provide for the manner in which such regulations, restrictions and the boundaries of such districts including any...
• 265 - Changes.
  1. Such regulations, restrictions and boundaries may from time to time be amended. Such amendment shall be effected by a simple majority vote of the...
• 265-a - Exemption of Lots Shown on Approved Subdivision Plats.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law, the provisions of a zoning ordinance or local law...
• 266 - Adoption of First Zoning Ordinance.
  1. In order to avail itself of the powers conferred by this article, such town board shall appoint a commission to be known as the...
• 267 - Zoning Board of Appeals.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Use variance" shall mean the authorization by the zoning board of appeals for the use of land...
• 267-a - Board of Appeals Procedure.
  1. Meetings, minutes, records. Meetings of such board of appeals shall be open to the public to the extent provided in article seven of the...
• 267-b - Permitted Action by Board of Appeals.
  1. Orders, requirements, decisions, interpretations, determinations. The board of appeals may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify the order, requirement, decision, interpretation...
• 267-c - Article Seventy-Eight Proceeding.
  1. Application to supreme court by aggrieved persons. Any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the board of appeals or...
• 268 - Enforcement and Remedies.
  1. The town board may provide by local law or ordinance for the enforcement of this article and of any local law, ordinance or regulation...
• 269 - Conflict With Other Laws.
  Wherever the regulations made under authority of this article require a greater width or size of yards or courts, or require a lower height of...
• 270 - Official Map, Establishment.
  The town board may establish an official map of that part of the town outside the limits of any incorporated city or village showing the...
• 271 - Planning Board, Creation, Appointment.
  1. Authorization. The town board of each town is hereby authorized by local law or ordinance, to create a planning board consisting of five or...
• 272-a - Town Comprehensive Plan.
  1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby finds and determines that: (a) Significant decisions and actions affecting the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement, growth...
• 273 - Official Map, Changes.
  Such town board is authorized and empowered, whenever and as often as it may deem it for the public interest, to change or add to...
• 274-a - Site Plan Review.
  1. Definition of site plan. As used in this section the term "site plan" shall mean a rendering, drawing, or sketch prepared to specifications and...
• 274-b - Approval of Special Use Permits.
  1. Definition of special use permit. As used in this section the term "special use permit" shall mean an authorization of a particular land use...
• 276 - Subdivision Review; Approval of Plats; Development of Filed Plats.
  1. Purpose. For the purpose of providing for the future growth and development of the town and affording adequate facilities for the housing, transportation, distribution,...
• 277 - Subdivision Review; Approval of Plats; Additional Requisites.
  1. Purpose. Before the approval by the planning board of a plat showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, or the...
• 278 - Subdivision Review; Approval of Cluster Development.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "cluster development" shall mean a subdivision plat or plats, approved pursuant to this article, in which the...
• 279 - Subdivision Review; Record of Plats.
  1. Filing of plat with county clerk or register. (a) No plat of a subdivision of land showing lots, blocks or sites, shall be filed...
• 280 - Permits for Buildings in Bed of Mapped Streets.
  For the purpose of preserving the integrity of such official map or plan no permit shall hereafter be issued for any building in the bed...
• 280-a - Permits for Buildings Not on Improved Mapped Streets.
  1. No permit for the erection of any building shall be issued unless a street or highway giving access to such proposed structure has been...
• 281 - Municipal Improvements in Streets.
  No public municipal street utility or improvement shall be constructed by the town in any street or highway within that part of the town outside...
• 282 - Court Review.
  Any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the planning board concerning such plat or the changing of the zoning regulations...
• 283 - Issuance of Licenses and Permits in Certain Towns.
  If, in any town of the first class at the time of the enactment of this chapter, there exists a building department, set up as...
• 283-a - Coordination With Agricultural Districts Program.
  1. Policy of local governments. Local governments shall exercise their powers to enact local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations that apply to farm operations in...
• 284 - Intermunicipal Cooperation in Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation.
  1. Legislative intent. This section is intended to illustrate the statutory authority that any municipal corporation has under article five-G of the general municipal law...
• 285 - Separability Clause.
  If any part or provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged invalid by any court of competent...

Last modified: February 3, 2019